New Ways of Seeing

I was engrossed in an episode of Ugly Delicious , an eight-part Netflix series produced by, and starring Momofuku founder David Chang whe...

Readers of this blog, I finally have a forthcoming sole-authored monograph after almost a decade of starting this blog. It is titled, The T...

Image: Author's own, taken in Bushwick (Brooklyn) in May 2016 It is a hot day in Sydney and I am swimming in literature and gentr...

I have usually gone out with men who are better cooks than me. This is not in any way a reflection on my culinary skills (which are compete...

My 'research' yesterday consisted of catching up on the latest episode of 'Poh and Co.' on SBS on Demand, continuing my vie...

After watching a rather emotionally intense film on a long-haul flight, I decide to switch to an episode of Simply Nigella . It reminds me...

A few days ago, I cooked laksa for some friends at my new apartment in Marrickville, in Sydney’s inner west. This was the 8th time I had mo...

Unless you were living under a proverbial rock called commercial television in Australia these past few months, you are probably aware of t...

On Australia Day (which also happens to be India's Republic Day), I interviewed my friend, the maverick writer and radio presenter Suni...

On the 29th of October 2014, no country was led into Tagore's 'Heaven of Freedom' , but I did become a naturalised citizen of A...

An exhibit at the War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) As I edge closer to (finally) attending my Australian citizenship c...

There was much criticism of the NSW State Library's panel titled 'Multiculturalism: What are we afraid of' in March this ...

*This is the first in a series of monthly posts until I complete my new documentary project on ordinary, everyday practices of cosmopolitan...